I wanted to make a movie about a black family in Middle America. I wanted to make a film where everyone can look at them and say, 'This is my family.'

You can't make an action movie without action, and so, you can't make a romance movie without romance.

I realized that food was actually a metaphor for bringing us all together. It's about us communicating and being like family.

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.

I'm like the black sheep of my family.